Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions

Volume I. Text

Edited by A. V. C. Schmidt

Book cover: Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions

Extent: 762 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Research in Medieval Culture

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(March 2011)

ISBN: 9781580441582

7.4 x 9.65 inches

Price: $19.95

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Volume 1 of a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol 1) alongside both the textual notes (Vol 2, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol 2, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students as possible.


This work-a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman-constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat’s standard edition of 1886. This revised and corrected three-volume set is specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Volume 1) alongside both the textual notes (Volume 2, part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Volume 2, part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students of Langland as possible.

Volume I. Text Second Edition Editorial Preface to the First Edition of Volume I Preface to Second Edition AcknowledgementsList of Manuscripts Symbols and Abbreviations used in the Apparatus Abbreviations Note on Text and Apparatus Text Appendix to the Text Appendices to Apparatus, Volume I. Text
Second Edition
Editorial Preface to the First Edition of Volume I
Preface to Second Edition
Acknowledgements
List of Manuscripts
Symbols and Abbreviations used in the Apparatus
Abbreviations
Note on Text and Apparatus
Text
Appendix to the Text
Appendices to Apparatus
Volume II, Part 1. Introduction and Textual Notes
Editorial Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Foreword
A. Introduction
I. The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman
II. The Editorial Tradition of Piers Plowman
III. The Text of the A, B, C and Z Versions
IV. Editing the Text
V. The Poem in Time
B. Textual Notes
Volume II, Part 2. Commentary, Bibliography and Indexical Glossary
C. Commentary
D. Bibliography
E. Indexical Glossary
F. Appendices
Appendix I: The Language and Metre of Piers Plowman
Appendix II: The Rubrics of Piers Plowman
Appendix III: Langland's 'Repertory' of Lines and Half-lines

  • Edited by A. V. C. Schmidt